Can Budgies Eat Carrots? The Honest UK Answer — And the Part Most Owners Get Wrong.

From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, sold, and advised on cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgerigars. Questions about fresh food come up at the counter almost every week. Carrots are one of the most commonly asked about, and they … Read more

Why Your Budgie Is Plucking Its Feathers — A UK Owner’s Honest Guide From 35 Years at Paradise Pets

Worried budgie with plucked chest feathers in UK home cage

From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has watched countless worried owners walk through the door carrying a bird that is pulling its own feathers out. This article is … Read more

I’ve Sold Budgies for 35 Years — Here Are 5 Mistakes UK Owners Still Make in 2026

Healthy budgie at Paradise Pets Swindon

From Neil at Paradise Pets I’ll let you in on something. After 35 years of running Paradise Pets here in Swindon, I genuinely thought UK budgie owners would have moved on from the same old mistakes by now. The information is everywhere — better than it’s ever been. And yet, week after week in 2026, … Read more